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texpatriot2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-27-05 03:40 AM
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Hey, anybody seen this? Justice Dept sending observers to
Edited on Tue Sep-27-05 03:41 AM by texpatriot2004
Mass. to watch elections.

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=54061

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Justice Department today announced that it will send federal observers and Civil Rights Division personnel to monitor the September 27 municipal preliminary election in Boston, Massachusetts, to ensure compliance with the Voting Rights Act.

Under the Voting Rights Act, which protects the rights of Americans to participate in the electoral process without discrimination, the Justice Department is authorized to ask the Office of Personnel Management to send federal observers to areas that are specially covered in the Act itself or by a federal court order. Federal observers will be assigned to monitor polling place activities in Boston pursuant to a federal court order entered on September 22, 2005.

The observers will watch and record activities during voting hours at polling locations in the city. Civil Rights Division personnel will coordinate the federal activities and maintain contact with local election officials.

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